(Cavalcanti, 1927) Music by Darius Milhaud.
Based on a song of the same title about a young, orphaned factory girl, who meets a man at a dance who convinces her to quit her job and become a prostitute and is murdered by him after she tries to stop.
Performing forces Minimum | 44 players (strings: 7,7,6,5,4; flute/pic, oboe, clarinet I & II, bassoon, 2 trumpets, 2 Fr. horns, trombone, harp, piano, 2 percussion, tympani.) |
Rehearsals | One 2 ½ hour rehearsal with orchestra One 2 ½ hour technical rehearsal with film One 2 1/2 hour dress rehearsal with orchestra and film |
Performance time | 40 minutes |
Film speed | 22.05 frames per second in Europe |
Film source | M. Pierre Braunberger, Paris, Les films du jeudi, filmsdujeudi@wanadoo.fr |


